The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-06-09

running fountains. There are two foun.
tains In u now. In one the water 10
was never turned on. The latter cost
the city during the Tweed ring some.
thing like e150, 900, and 10 % dry and
barren to-day - Il was when the stone
was first hauled here from the granite
quarry. There are some beautiful trees
IN the park and few insufficient benches,
but II 10 not . place for popular resort,
and hasn't single convenience or COM
fort or aid to refreshment, save here and
there . halfway drinking fountain for
people who are willing to run therisk Of
lip disease by drinking from cups which
are never clean and are generally nasty.
On we 20 uptown along the sun-baked
pavements Of this glaring city looking In
vain for tree or shrub or restful spot,
until we reach Union Square. Sixty
years ago my maternal uncle lived away
out of town in the summer and had hfs
country residence at the head of the place
now known az Union Square. 1t is one
Of the most enjoyable places in and
about this city. Thousands Of people
use It every day, resting upon its shady
benches, availing themselves of its physi-
cal conveniences of every sort and kind,
disturbed at night only by the every
corner-searching glare of the electric
light. Union Square has q number of
very beautiful trees, and one or two beds
Of Towering shrubs. There Is some pre-
tense of care about 1t, and its fountain IL
suggestive of GOODNESS and refreshment
to the poor tramps, the school children,
the flirting policeman and the coy cham
bermaids who make 1t their place of daily
resort. There, too, we begin to find evil
dences of civilization in the guise of
statues.
There is nothing, you will remember, on
the Battery in the bronze, iron or stone
line except the stone barge-house and the
iron pillars of the elevated railroad.
Neither is there anything in the City
Hall Park graceful or suggestive OF AL
or science in any department Some
years ago q foolhardy fellow set up a
freestOne statue of Washington in the
City Hall Park; but, when ornamented
by spit-balls in its eyes and the greater
portion of its nose knocked of, it became
such an unmitigated guy that our city
fathers sagely concluded to relegate 1t to
congenial stone yard. In and about
Union Square are the equestrian statue
| of Washington, statue of Lafayette,
and the mammoth Disagreement statue
of Abraham Lincoln.
Come along. We have plenty of places
/ yet to visit. Never mind hoisting your
umbrella. 1t won't shield you from the
f! pitiless rays of the sun, for there is no
shade of any sort or kind. There is not
. tree from Union Square all the way
up the hrepd sidewalks shining and
shimmssin6 and glistening in the broad
/ sweltes This boiling sun.
Here W6ete at Ma1@pn Square, by day
beautiful, ak night 6ceae of picturesqe-
/ ness unequAled in this city. Its paths
are multitudinous, broad and charmingly
shaded by widespreading trees of sturdy
! growth. There are many benches there.
| Children play there by thousands; nurses
] guard them by hundreds and, although
4 the unkempt tramp and the slimly dis
! guised loafer are now and then to be de.
! tected here and there, the park police are
| gallant enough to protect the servant
I, girls, and the little children know whom
to run to in time of alarm. At the lower
| end is most ridiculous effigy of William
H. Seward sitting in modern garb in q
most comfortable position. Admiral
Farragut is represented as preaching
from pulpit or directing the maneuvres
of Q feet from the bow of vessel
according to the Imagination or infor.
nation Of the spectator.
Twenty or thirty years ago monu.
ment was erected to General Worth, ot
Mexican war notoriety, and, under the
impression that 1t was put 80 far uptown
that nobody would ever see it, there was
butfittle opposition to its erection at the
upper end of Madison Square. Here
too, for q year or more, was placed The
mammoth hand of the extraordinary gif
FROM France to America, the statue o.
Liberty, for which the pedestal was long
since provided.
Elegant drinking fountains have beer
sent here, gifts of private benefcence, and
in fact, Madison Square by reason of itt
inherent beauty, its superb rows of trees
and its surroundings, may be considered
one Of our most delightful and enjoyable
breathing places. At night when the
electric light falls full upon the marble
fronts of the Fifth.avenue Hotel, the
Albemarle and the Hoffman House, and
on Twenty-third street and Madison
avenue and Twenty sixth streets, the 70
nance and weirdness of the picture are
singularly suggestive and worthy the per
or pencil Of the choicest artist.
1need not tell you about Central Park
save to call attention to q development
made notable during the past few years
viz, the erection of costly and magnifi
cent fiat houses on every available lot o
ground within an eighth Of q mile of th'
park itself. The park is in its glory now
and its beauties and comforts are en-
joyed every day in all this season b!
many scores of thousands Of people
BeyOnd the park Is q variety of de
lightful resorts, chief of which is Higl
bridge, where every day in every weel
go from eight to ten thousand people
while ON Sundays the police report from
twenty to forty thousand men, womel
and children as regularly as the sunshin
permits trip up the river or ride upol
the elevated road. HOWARD.
ASheet-irOn Pool With $50, ,OOO, 900.
The formation of another gigantic manu-
featuring pOOl WAS bepun in this citv TODAY